#thinking about that chris fleming bit

[neocities]

Billy desperately needed lessons in fashion and manwhoring from Brucey.

[perexcri]

actually i hope byler cheats so bad next season that stranger things becomes the southern drama it was always meant to be the likes of which could only ever be found in the wet dreams of tennessee williams and it ends with one person dead on the pavement bleeding out and another on their knees screaming in the rain while tearing their clothes and dumping ashes on their head and another forced to leave hawkins under a false name and then it all gets buried until the year of our lord 2018 when an up-and-coming true crime podcast that loves to use people's personal stories of tragedy for storytelling and a quick buck unearths the whole sordid affair and uses it as fodder for their 45 minute production that's 37% comprised of hello fresh and better help sponsorships

[scolek]

deputizing my mother in my now several weeks long quest to get some fucking halloween oreos.

[nonexistent-triangle]

yeah, im part of the cia taskforce for preventing people from getting bizzare psychosexual obsessions with minecraft youtubers. the program is a massive failure.

wghy are they having sex

[cyberdragoninfinity]

I just wanted to commend you for your ability to select animals for characters. I love seeing your various Yugioh furry AU characters and each animal choice is so perfect in every way from Otter Atticus to poodle Dennis. I would love to hear your thought process when it comes to making those animals pairings or if it's just on vibes.

WAHH THANK YOU i take a lot of personal pride in my ygo furry AU designs and scrying animal species for each character is always a really fun little challenge for me, so that means a lot to me 🥺 this is a great question!

My thought process for these tends to boil down to a combination of "i think this animal suits this characters personality/appearance/etc" and also yeah sometimes it's just vibes, but i DO have a small set of 'rules' i keep in the back of my mind to give myself an extra challenge:

I always try to not copy exact animal species I've seen other people use for a character, and I ESPECIALLY try to pick specific species or breeds of an animal rather than "oh well he's just a cat/a dog/a bunny/a lizard/etc etc etc"--there's so many cool animals out there!!! there's so many cool breeds of common furry species you can play with!!! I like getting into the specifics of it!!! also imo there's Enough furry anime character drawings out there where the characters are Just a brown or yellow or purple dog or cat of no discernible breed, i wanna do my own thing >;3c

(I think the only exception with my furry AU designs so far is jaden, but to be fair 'orange tabby cat' is just perfect for him, also my jaden is fat so he's already not your average Anime Cat Boy Design HAHA)

i also try to not repeat exact species, even across different yugiohs--different breeds is fair game (i.e. poodle dennis, akita yusei, pomeranian bakura, and corgi kotori are all dogs of course but those are all very different breeds!!) but if I use, say, American Bison for Furry AU Gong, I can't go using bison for Axel or the Gore or anyone else later. Just an added challenge for me!

The only time that doesn't apply is with characters who are siblings, I like to use the same/very similar breeds for them (unless they're adopted/there's other factors at play--i havent drawn them yet but Shay Obsidian is a red-throated caracara and Lulu Obsidian is some species of dove/pigeon, since there's dimensional fuckery at play with all the bracelet girls)

side bit of trivia but poodle!dennis definitely came about originally from the "im a big gay poodle" lyric in this chris fleming classic, and then it just turned out that was actually the single perfect animal to make him 🧡 standard poodles are hunting dogs 🧡🧡🧡🧡okaaaaay

ANYWAY to illustrate my process I mulled on a furry species for a character I haven't assigned one yet--in this case, Fujiwara from GX! Since Atticus and Zane are both semi-aquatic animals (sea otter, black swan) I wanted to make Fujiwara something semi-aquatic too, and I also especially wanted to pick out something kind of off-kilter and weird and Nobody's First Choice For a Furry Species Pick (this is often a driving factor for me <3 but also fujiwara is such a purposely weird and ill-fitting character In The Text so it's perfect for him.) I almost made him a green salamander, but I wanted something that could easily preserve his yucky seaweed hair since it's a big part of his design, SO! AFTER MUCH CONSIDERATION--

the humble playpus :) frequently an animal associated with "not fitting in" which. well. fujiwara......................................

it's a Process but i enjoy it very much <3 i will keep making yugioh furries forever and i will have the grandest time in the world with it <333

[ohtori-dropout]

W.U.G. by Chris Fleming and I Won’t Hold My Breath by Thesaurus Rex are about the same guy and that guy is Akio Ohtori, except that WUG is about RGU/SKU Akio and IWHMB is mostly about AOU Akio (I was also introduced to WUG by an Utena AMV so. A little biased)

Choice lyrics include:

WUG:

“You’re dripping with sweat / And you feel so inept”

“Oh! Everyone’s soul leaves their body when they talk to this guy / So I won’t feel guilty when my body remains / But my soul’s on the beach like Andy Dufresne”

“After I make a joke and he doesn’t laugh but he says ‘There’s actually some truth to that’”

The entire fairytale bit. Do I even need to say anything.

“He’s only comfortable with complete control and authority / They should invent something for guys with this kind of affliction / Like a VR system where he can believe he’s in a perpetual state / Of giving you a tour of his house”

IWHMB:

“He fancies himself a great intellectual / He fancies himself a sapiosexual / Prays that you can’t see his tell / Clearly he fancies himself”

“Now he’s pushing forty and he’s finding god / His days of degradation are done / LARPing as a Prodigal Son”

“Now he thinks he’s enlightened / He thinks he’s a Buddhist / He thinks he’s Picasso / He’s painting this brutalist / Abstract expressionist trash”

“…his paintings are conceptual erections”

“Praying for strength to repent / Trying to throw off the scent / He’s the kind of boy that girls write poems about / Crying on their therapist’s couch / Lied and filled their heads with doubts”

“And he’s seeking redemption / In the form of attention”

[fireofbomb]

FAST TRACK OPINION ABOUT QUEER AND GAY RELATED THINGS

I don't like "girls and gays," as in being inside/part of the label, I just find it cringe

I feel like most gay men who are open about their identites and are more feminine don't relate to me, or can't, or give up. I don't know, I met a lot of gay men and they just exist on a different side of the pond than I do. No judgement, though, it's just a bit frustrating.

I still have yet to read Paraiso by Jose Lima Lezama. (want to see the Homoerotic undertones)

I'm very afraid of the Golden Pavillion author (you know the one, I'm scared of saying his name)

To me, gay "tribes" are meaningless when most of the men I like don't necessarily fall into any of the major categories (I don't doubt there are categories I can put my attractions to, but it just feels reductive to do so).

I like Trixie and Katya, although I don't necessarily get most of their humor, I still think they're somewhat funny and intriguing.

I don't like Matteo Lane.

I used to like Chris Fleming until I grew up. (not an insult, I legitimately just felt less interested in the man)

I mistake my crushes for love-at-first-sight situations (don't worry, I'm dealing with this in my own way)

For some reason, I think a lot of gay men appeal too much to the straight majority. I'd like to have a child, but I don't feel comfy with the "nuclear" family.

[shock]

they should have named that wizard anything but Gale though because I think about Chris Fleming every time I see him and it really makes me feel like he's doing a bit and he can drop it at any second but is choosing not to

[clueless1995]

using the you’re the one that i want scene from grease for an edit except i cannot stop thinking about this chris fleming bit

[appleatcha]

I had a long winded thing typed and tumblr deleted it 😭 so here we go again !

I wanted to waffle a bit about the shift in tone/aura of my blog lately.

My blogs vibe has shifted a lot since its inception, but I had really gotten into this "positivity inclusive (read: anti-trad/anti-terf) housewife" thing in 2023. And in the months I spent focusing on that in my life I learned so much about gratitude and positive thinking that has truly fundamentally changed my mental health and how I see and experience the world around me. But it always felt like I was just ignoring a huge part of myself.

I would come on here and write about gratitude and positivity and subconsciously I feel like I postured myself as this elegent and soft spoken lady when thats....not me at all. I am an air-headed and ham-handed lady that either doesn't take something seriously or has panic attacks over how serious i believe something is. I am awkward and stiff and most importantly I am NOT a positive, perfect kind of person that I feel like my blog gave off. I am an anxious mess and have a tendency to be negative. Which is a big reason why I focused so much on positivity and gratitude, which again has really positively impacted me. Even with my anxiety and mental health struggles I am way less negative than I ever was before.

I've mentioned before, but the end of 2022 brought up some challenges for me that I had never encountered before and never thought I would encounter. And I feel like I really grabbed onto the whole positivity/gratitude shtick as a way of avoiding coping with that. But when my I had to resuscitate my husband last month along with a few other stressful things that were new experiences for me, I think it kind of "uno-reversed" the stress of late 2022 and I had a real "I've lost myself bit" introspection.

I've said it twice, but the complete focus on positivity and gratitude and my role as a wife and a mother helped me so much. So much in fact, that I spent some time struggling with the thought that I'd lost myself a bit. I had this thought of "well, this way of thinking and living has done me so good, why should I ease off the gas?". But in focusing so much on that side of me, I was neglecting the other side of me. I couldn't tell you how many times my husband would sit me down and say something to the effect of "Nivids, you're going too hard in the sauce. You don't have to put all your eggs in one basket" and I would write it off. And as usual, here i am realizing that he knew me better than myself all along yet again!

So I've been trying to let loose on here. I refused to post about my interests on here beyond "nature, appalachia, housewife, positivity, gratitude, and occasional witchery" because I didn't think my weird interests or humor could mesh well with it. But im trying to just not give a damn. This has also coupled with an effort to engage in my silly weird interests in my real world life as well.

My husband points out a lot that I don't let myself enjoy my own things. One thing about my husband is that he drops some harsh truths sometimes lol. One big one is that 99% of the situations i feel i CANT do something, i am just not letting myself do it. For example, if I lament that I haven't had a chance to watch a video I've been waiting to watch because my son has been watching his stuff on TV, he will say "you can tell him he's had his turn and watch your tv" and I think "wow, I guess I really did just want to feel powerless to validate my inaction huh". And I think I've been doing a lot of that self-regulation this year to cope with everything that's been going on.

All of that is to say, I am sorry if you followed me this year because you are a fellow housewife and enjoyed my peaceful, nature-centric positivity and are like WTF happened to this girl when I start posting Mary Reilly, Chris Fleming, and clown doll lmao

[megaxard]

i think i was actually introduced to chris fleming via Sick Jan, and then i went from there. the bit i think about the most (aside from sick jan) is probably "thats a JOCK in a DRESS" re: harry styles

[fran-kubelik]

Have you seen Chris Fleming bit about handsome men? I think you'll particularly enjoy the subject of the joke.

(I don't know if links work on asks.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8S8H7pvTTN/?igsh=a3lpN3F0bnJjNmNx )

Lmaoooooo no for real though! Thank you for sending me this lol

[spiderfaang]

Context for my last reblog: I think appleshine would be like....the cat equivalent of those beauty vloggers. Have you seen that one chris fleming bit about make up youtubers. To me that's appleshine

[sage-sips]

I like to knit.

Sometimes that means making stuff out of yarn.

Sometimes it means weaving together disparate ideas in a Tarot reading. Or a Tarot blog post.

I'm doing both lately. It's that Elfcon 5 gift making time of year, but I'd also like to knit together the past couple of blog posts. We've looked at a couple of narrow topics, now lets connect them back into the grand scheme of things a little bit.

The grand scheme is how Tarot and intuition actually works - at least the way I go about it.

Recently we talked about the role of imagination in intuition and the idea of accuracy in intuitive processes like Tarot.

My readings do not predict the future. So that kind of "accuracy" doesn't factor into things even if it were possible, which it isn't for all of those cause and effect sort of Heisenberg uncertainty-ish sort of reasons. In this case "accurate" means "it contains some sort of useful insight or idea."

Can we get insight or inspiration from Tarot and imagination? Yes - absolutely. It's about the most human thing I can think of to do.

Let's go back to our imagination as intuition example - think of an elephant taking a shower.

When I first learned this concept in an email conversation with Chris Fleming, my first thought was a Babar-like, highly antropomorphized cartoon elephant in a cartoon human shower with a big white towel wrapped around it's waist a la movie men's locker room.

Was this a prediction? No, of course not. Was it accurate? Yes - it was whimsical and playful at a time in life where I needed a reminder to be more playful and find more humor in life.

In response to last week's post, a client said she visualized a real life elephant being lovingly cleaned by an attentive caretaker and seeming to enjoy the experience.

Like a Tarot card in the context of a layout, this image in the context of the person who saw it is a beautiful message from and for a beautiful person.

This person is a natural caretaker in a care taking profession. Her visualization is a tremendous validation that she is on the right path in her work, and even if they don't say it her clients appreciate her as much as her imaginary elephant was enjoying its shower.

It is also the classic reminder for caretakers to allow themselves to be cared for or at least give themselves a little TLC. It could be a reminder to let yourself be that happy elephant.

These aren't "accurate predictions" relative to physical events. To make Tarot or psychic readings into that is to strip it of all its depth, emotion, beauty and humanity. Making Tarot and psychic readings about predictions is like taking a living breathing elephant and turning it into a two dimensional rubber stamp shadow image of an elephant.

Imagination is our window to intuition. Tarot is the battery sparks intuition. Together, they let us see marvelous things far beyond physical predictions.

Are you ready for something more advanced than pool ball toy predictions? Are you ready to glimpse the ideas that help you create your future rather than (maybe) predict it? Tarot doesn't tell you what will happen in life, it helps you figure out what to do when life happens.

[hiwasseeriver]

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been thinking about this chris fleming bit ever since unfollowing some weird instagram people

[youstupidplonk]

Honestly for that ask thing I was about to say EVERYTHING! (but then I thought that might be a bit much for you so...if you could answer at least the one's below that would be great) 1. If you’re an author, how many WIPs do you currently have? (Be honest!)

4. What fandom’s/ship’s fan fiction do you read the most?

5. What’s a crackship you love?

7. What’s the last thing you read that made you cry?

17. Describe a fic that is still in the ‘ideas’ stage.

19. What’s your favorite character headcanon?

20. Do you have a favorite fanfic or author? If so, tag them/post a link and share the love!

Hi!!! I’m so sorry it’s taken so long to get to this. It’s been haunting me every time I open tumblr 😂

1. I have 26 WIPs 🥲 across six different fandoms (life on mars, ashes to ashes, Chicago fire, line of duty, being human and doctor who)

4. I read a lot of thasmin because they deserved better, same with flemson. Galex is one I don’t actively seek out but is present in a lot of ashes fics so I read that by proxy too.

5. Oooooh good question, I can’t lie, I really like the idea that Kate Fleming had some ✨conflicting ✨ feelings towards Lindsey Denton but I don’t think they’d ever actually work as a couple.

7. The last thing I read that made me cry was actually a WIP I was beta reading for the wonderful @bisexualroger . I won’t spoil the plot but it’s about Alex drake finally getting the closure she deserves.

17. I have several that are still in that stage, one is a fic where both Gene and Alex (who haven’t met each other) can both see emotional auras and the fic follows them meeting the other members of CID and changing their lives. I have an it’s a wonderful life doctor who AU and a thasmin fic where they have one perfect day together before 13 regenerates aaand finally one being human fic following Lia who is killed in the box tunnel massacre

19. Chris Skelton and Annie Cartwright were best friends. They would have been similar ages and started at the same age. If you watch mars they have a lot of background moments together. I won’t hear anything else other than the fact that by the end of Mars they would have died for each other.

20. Any of the writers in the ashes to ashes tag currently, they are all fantastic ❤️